Security devs forced to hide Boolean logic from overeager optimizer FOSDEM 2026 The creators of security software have ...

Today we’re going to talk about how to keep information secret, and this isn’t a new goal. We’re going to walk you through some common encryption techniques such as the Advanced Encryption Standard ...

The famous cryptographers Leonard Adleman, Ronald Rivest, and Adi Shamir – the developers of the RSA encryption code – received the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2002 Turing Award “for their ...

Ever since writing has existed, people have wanted to send secret messages to one another--and others have wanted to intercept and read them. This is the second installment of a blog series taking you ...

Imagine waking up one day to find that all your confidential emails are suddenly an open book for anyone with a powerful enough computer. Sounds like a nightmare, right? Well, with the rapid ...

Serious Cryptography – A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption written by Jean-Philippe Aumasson, is an incredibly detailed and practical guide to modern encryption, written by one of the ...

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Neal Koblitz is a mathematician who, starting in the 1980s, became fascinated by mathematical questions in cryptography. In his article "The Uneasy Relationship Between Mathematics and Cryptography," ...

There’s been a lot of focus recently on encryption within the context of cryptocurrencies. Taproot being implemented in bitcoin has led to more cryptographic primitives that make the bitcoin network ...